Improvement in hoops foe skirts



@nite-h ,taten getinty ffice THOMAS B. DE 1 FOREST, or BIRMINGHAM, coNNEcTiOUT. Laim. Param No. 63,144, ma 'Mai-gh 26., 1867.

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AAAAA 4- I l To ALL WHOMIT MAY QONGERN:

Be it known that I, THOMAS B. D' FOREST, of Birniinghani, in the county 'of'New Haven, and. State of ConY nccticut,have invented a new Improvement in `Hoop Skirts; and I do herebydeclare .the followinwheniaken infconnection with the accompanying drawings, and the letters of reference mzirkedthereon, to bea full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figurc 1, a'side-view-of one of the hoops; and ini I i i Figure 2, a transverse section." v

T-his invention relates 'toa peculiai` `formation of the hoops,l and consists'irna woven tape, in which two ox more of the. .warp threads are forined from ne-temperedsteel or other elastic'wire, fabricated ,into the tape in the process ofweaving like a's are thejother'warps. p v .o l l v To enable others Ato: construct anduse my improvement, I will proceed todescribe the same as illustrated in thel accompanying drawings."4 y l lA is a tapewoven in an ordinary-tape'-loom, in the Warps of which are introduced ue steel wires a, denoted by the broken lines in iig. 1 and by the-heavy black in fig. These wires are arranged-with 4the warps, and s'o that severalbrous warps intervene between any two ofthe metallic warps, andare operated by the reeds,'vin like manner as are the other'warps, topermit the shuttle .tov pass over and under in the usual manner of weaving, to curryithe filling, as denoted in red, iig. I prefer' to forni the. hoops about one inch wide, inserting three, about numbei twenty-four, wire's.; 'Yet the width of thehoop and 4the number of Wires may bey'a'ried according to circumstances.' Thus woven together, the hoopis ready for Yuse, 'anduat coinparativelylittle moho eiipense. than .the'tape without the wires, and .the Wire-s themselves produced at much less cost than the ordinary single hoop. To construct a .skirtfr-o'm hoops'tbns' prepared,fI cutthe tapes `tothe required length, according to their position on the skirt, and lap and `stitch-.thc twoends together, then place the tape Bin proper' position, and stitch the hoop to theta-pe, as denoted in broken blfue lines, gill. ThnsI forno a hoop skirt without clasps, all parts being firmly'stitchcdtogethenfwhich is lthe bestandgmost reliable security, and of much less weight, as the hoops' are placed at inueh` greater distance from `centres than the ordinary hoopsfor the same class of skirt, and each hoop in itself much lighter than', vand equally. as strong and elastic as, the common hoop.

l Havingl thus fully described my. inventi0n what I claim as new and useful, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, isi Hoops forskirtsformedlby'the lntrodnctionof elastic metallic 'warps in the fabrication of the hoop, substantially as. described-,as a'newarticle of manu acture.

'r1-los. B. DE FOREST.

Witnesses:y v

'Joan S. Pnssnnssa, E. SHUSTER. 

